"In her performances, Nathalie Talec does not redistribute the roles, she interprets them. The main and unique character of her universe, she does not embody less hybrid beings, fantastic animals coming from a poetry of the marvelous, divinities belonging to a mythology mixed with fables."
Claire Le Restif, excerpt from "Alas, there is no propeller, that's the bone", in. Comment s'appelle la partie immergée de l'iceberg, catalog of the exhibition Living Together, Maison populaire de Montreuil 2002, Ed. Maison populaire de Montreuil, Centre d'Art Moderne
FIAC
Three performances per day
Following the success of Nathalie Talec's performance, Les silences parlent entre eux, which you were able to see on our stand at the Fiac last year, we are proposing for the 2003 edition of the fair a new performance, boréale attitude, lolita solitude, the title of the artist's musical sitcom, Play Back, begun in 2000. This musical sitcom is based on the creation of a fiction inspired by two cinematographic genres, the musical and science fiction, and on two script models, the sentimental comedy and the philosophical tragedy.
"In her performances, Nathalie Talec does not redistribute the roles, she interprets them. Main and unique character of her universe, she does not embody hybrid beings, fantastic animals from a poetry of the marvelous, deities belonging to a mythology mixed with fables." [1]
All the texts of the songs of the musical sitcom, without exception, are elaborated around a simple syntactic writing. The origin of all these texts is to be sought in contemporary art. Indeed, these texts are built on the principle of the quotation of works, titles of exhibitions, subjective descriptions of works or sets of works.
"It is the world of words that creates the world of things [J. Lacan]. Art is for me a real language, that I appropriate as one appropriates a language, words, a grammar. My practice of quotation allows me to reinvent language, not based on words or a language, but on a history: that of art. The act of performance is an act of the body. It is an active art form. This act allows me to physically and psychologically experience space and otherness -the presence of the other, the confrontation in real time- but also to reintroduce in my practice all forms of feelings and sensations. The act of performance is an act of time and an act of sharing. It is, for me, what Nietzsche described as a "mental backworld". The visible is not the real. The double, the doubling, the duplication falsify the visible, make the original an enigma and the unique an implausibility. It is also a method to find a coincidence of oneself with oneself and to work at a putting away of oneself, to reach the other. These states intrigue me because they refer to the false, to the copy, to the reproduction, to the trickery, to the playback... " [2]
This performance will mark the beginning of the presentation of the musical sitcom, presentation elaborated in three times:
- play back, the credits, Fiac 2003
- play back, the trailer, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, Friday October 17 (date to be confirmed)
- play back, the model, 3 episodes, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, during 2004
Nathalie Talec / creation and production Xavier Boussiron / musician
Malaury Nataf / actress
Nelly Maurel / sound and sound effects production
Cecilia Delestre / costumes
[1] Claire Le Restif, excerpt from "Alas, there is no propeller, that is the bone", in. Comment s'appelle la partie immergée de l'iceberg, catalog of the exhibition Living Together, Maison populaire de Montreuil 2002, Ed. Maison populaire de Montreuil, Centre d'Art Moderne, produced with the support of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / DRAC Ile-de-France, the Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis and the Ville de Montreuil, May-June 2003, p.23
[2] Nathalie Talec, ibid, p.114-116